Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01

much more remuneratiVe of the two.
Peaches raised in Coloma in 1915, sold
for from 80 cents to 81 each, and peach pits
for tree planting were worth ten cents each.
1t was then discovered that California was
fruit country, and soon the little valleys
and foothill-plains were dotted with orch
ards and vineyards that have ever since
proved profitable, bearing sure crops that
can always be marketed at fair and remu-
nerative prices. The fruits-apples, peaches,
pears, apricots plums, prunes, almonds,
cherr;es-all thrive in this section and pro-
duce abundant crops. To show the re-
markable longevity and the hardihood of
trees grown in these foothills it is only
necessary to state that DR.. Prigg planted
small orchard on his place at Mound
Springs, in FL Dorado county, in 1919, He
sold his early fruit at prices that made him
fortune, the crops of some OF the trees
being worth $500 each. These trees, now
the property of Samuel R. Miller, near Pla
cerville, are still living, and yield large an
nual crops.
Although the placer mines, easily worked,
were soon exhausted, her deep gravel de-
posts still yield handsome returns, and
will furnish
EMPLOYMENT FOR A LARGE POPULATION
For scores of years yet to come. The hills
and valleys are ribbed with veins of gold
bearing quartz which now are attracting
the attention of practical mining experts
from all over the coast, and no doubt but
this industry in the near future will re-
store, in a measure, the prestige lost by the
exhaustion of the placeIs. Her quartz
lodes are so numerous, and where devel-
oped, have proven so rich, that Ell Dorado
! county has every prospect OF becoming the
leader in that important industry. The
| chief industry of the county, however, is,
and necessarily must be, the Glling of her
soil, the raising OF fruits, vines and the
| grains The western boundary Of this
county, a few miles east Of thetown OF Fol-
| som. is ITO miles northeast of San Fran
cisco, and 80 miles east of the capital city.
1t is bounded on the north by Placer coun-
ty, from which it is divided by the middle
| fork of the American river. Its eastern
boundary is the State of Nevada and Al
pine county. On the south it is bounded
| by Amador county, and on the west by
Sacramento.
ITS COUNTY SEAT.
Placerville, the county seat of El Dorado
county, is quite an important town, with a
population between two and three thou
sand, and is backed by mining and agri-
cultural section of immense value. 1t has
an altitude of l 500 feet, is quite prosperous,
and one of the wealthiest towns in the in
terror of the State. 1t was one of the first
mining camps in the section, and at one
time was acknowledged to be the metropo-
lis of the State, both as to population and
wealth. In its palmy days it was known
as Hangtown," a name applicable to no
place in California to-day, but quite an ap-
propriate one for Placerville then, for when
men committed murder, or even grand
larceny, they were arrested, tried before a
ssminers' jury" and if found guilty they
were hung to the nearest tree. So many
necktie parties took place from the limb of
an old white oak that stood on the plaza,
that the camp was known by no other
name, and according to
THE ETERNAL FITNESS OF THINGS,
The sobriquet Of HaDgtown was thought to
be, and really was, quite appropriate. In
those days the laws were few in number,
easily understood, quite generally obeyed,
and readily put into execution. They were
no longer than the Commandments, were
as unalterable as those of the Medes and
Persians, and if young Goldenson, who bru-